Realization

Al's POV

Those words echoed through his head, "Al? Am I going to die?" it made his heart ache, he really didn't believe his brother would live through it… he couldn't lie to himself, or his brother. But, that wasn't the question, was he going to die? Why would Al know? Not even the most professional doctors would now…

"Brother, I don't know why you would ask me, I don't know. Ask your doctor." Al said feeling very nervous.

"Okay, let me rephrase, Al. Do you think I'm going to die?" Edward asked looking down at his bed.

Al didn't want to believe his only living family left was going to die. He also didn't want to lie to his only living family. But, if Al said he thought he was going to die, would Ed give up hope? Ed had a chance, Al knew he did. So he said just that.

"Brother, I know you have a chance, you have the most will out of anyone I know. I don't think you'll die from this." Al said, he really made himself believe his words.

"Thanks, Al." Ed said visibly cheering up considerably.

"Anytime, Brother." Al said pulling Ed into a hug.

"Can we come in?" Casey asked looking through the slit she made in the door.

"Yeah, sure, come in, Casey, Mustang." Ed said smiling.

"What's got you so happy pipsqueak?" Roy said walking in with a smirk.

"WHO YOU CALLIN A DUMB RODENT!" Ed yelled still slightly smiling.

"Brother, he didn't say that." Al said in a pleading tone.

"It sounded like he did." Ed said pouting. Everyone laughed. And for the rest of the night, they told jokes and everyone's spirits were lifted from the doom and gloom from earlier today.

Yes, they were happy that night. Maybe it was good for them, but it made them all, far to naïve.

Ed's POV

After they all left when visiting hours were over, Ed decided to go to sleep with nothing better to do.

When he awoke, there were nurses rushing around him.

"What's goin' on?" Ed said groggy.

"Sir, please don't talk! Your heart stopped a minute ago!" A nurse said rushing to get something.

'wow,' Ed thought, 'I can't have a day of peace can I? No big surprise, I guess I just deserve every bit of it. Taking my brother's body, nina, Wiry crying all the time. I did all of it…' Ed gave a sad smile, before heading off to sleep once again.

Before he got to sleep he faintly heard, "Mr. Elric!" from a random nurse.

When he awoke… again. Everyone was staring at him with scared eyes.

"Brother!" Al yelled.

"What happened." Ed said faintly recalling that he needed to remember something.

"They said you heart stopped twice!" Al yelled teary eyed.

"Al, don't cry, I'm still alive." Ed said smiling sadly.

Ed pressed the call button to call for a nurse.

"Yes, may I help you Mr. Elric?" a kind nurse asked.

Eds eyes got dark as he said, "What caused my heart to stop?" Ed hoped it was what he was thinking.

"It was caused by stress, probably from the recent events" the nurse stated.

'Yes! Bullseye!' Ed thought getting a snot brat look in his eyes.

"So, it's the hospital environment that almost killed me?" Ed slightly yelled trying to intimidate the nurse.

"Well, umm… yes." the nurse said he last part in a squeak obviously scared.

"I am sorry, but as my rights as a patient, I refuse to undergo care at your hospital any longer! Get Roy papers to sign me out. I am leaving!" Ed said raising his hopes

Al instantly got a smile to his face, probably seeing that getting out of this place was brother's intent all along. The others anyhow, were shell- shocked. Aside from Mustang who simply glared at the nurse waiting for papers.

"Uh, yes sir! Right away sir!" The nurse said scrambling off probably to get the papers.

"Brother, you really are sneaky, I didn't know you were such a good actor. What else have you lied about?" Al said getting an evil grin on his face as well.

Everyone else was shocked.

"You were acting? That genuinely scared me!" Casey said shell-shocked.

"Thanks, I did a lot of acting while fighting." Ed said reaching for a book.

"Yeah right, Brother, when you fight, you just want to act smart to piss the enemy off." Al said non-chalantly.

Everyone gasped.

"Al… did you just curse?" Ed said wide-eyed

"What?" Al said genuinely confused.

They sighed and then laughed because they realized they all sighed together, Al, well, he was still confused.

The nurse came in while they were laughing, "Hello?"

"Oh yeah, give the papers to the black haired bastard over there." Ed said pointing his thumb at Roy.

"Uh, I need him to come with me actually, we need to go over a few things so that you can go home." The nurse said looking from Roy to Ed.

"Okay, I guess I'll be right back then…" Roy said getting up and leaving the room.

Roy's POV

They walked a while before stepping into what seemed like an x-ray room.

"Okay please take a seat Mr. Mustang." A doctor said as the nurse walked out and closed the door. Roy sat.

" Now, please let me finish before you talk, this is going to be a very long list. You can asked question after." Roy nodded. "Okay, as you know, Ed Elric has many different disorders mix into each other, his heart has also stopped from stress twice just today. Because of this, we see difficulty giving him away without warning you of some things first." Roy nodded again

"Please take a look at the boards hanging above you, they show the inside of Mr. Elric's body. If you notice, there is the biggest problem amongst many others, his heart." Roy turned wide eyed. 'his heart?' Roy thought.

"Now, it is quite terrible, but if we don't watch this, he might get anorexia on top of everything else." (A/N If you don't know what anorexia is, it's an eating disorder, there also purging anorexia.)

"I apologize for interrupting, but, what does his heart have to do with his stomach?" Roy asked.

Sighing, the doctor said, "Again, looking at the page, his heart has a cover type substance covering it. This substance may grow down his esophagus to his stomach, then, his stomach would restricted every time he tried to eat, causing everything to go back up, and as you probably know, if he does this enough, it would cause anorexia, probably the most serious case of anorexia ever actually." (A/N the most serious type of anorexia is purging anorexia, because it is frequently caused by depression or bullying in young girls, sometimes young men.)

"That's really all we have to worry about currently, as we can give him meds to keep everything else away, unless something else pops up, of course. So, sign these, and he's free to go.

Ik this was short. And anorexia is an eating disorder that when you eat, you throw up. Purging anorexia is caused by people making themselves throw up continuously. To purge is to throw up btw.